Associate Scientist - Technical Products Research

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including:
Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M
· A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.

Associate Scientist/Engineer of Technical Products Research group working in Global R&I (Research & Innovation). Responsible for helping to deliver new & or improved products through in-depth consumer understanding - uncovering & translating consumer beliefs, needs & desires into critical product design features and technologies, experiential cues & claims. This includes defining targets & acceptable ranges for performance (product & pack) & consumer models that directly link innovation choices to consumer desired benefits & experiences.

Will work across category on platform & upstream research projects, working with Advanced Technologies, Formulation, Packaging & Processing innovation partners. Responsible for being the voice of the consumer to help guide & inform the technology innovation teams on opportunities & implications of technical choices.

An Associate Scientist/Engineer within the Technical Products Research team helps to uncover & translate consumer beliefs, needs & desires into critical functional benefits, design features, experiential signals, consumer claims, for upstream unbranded technologies and projects. Helps determine critical technical attributes & drives innovation distinctiveness. Guides & informs the technical innovation teams on opportunities & implications of technical choices. Ensures holistic technical design: products + packaging/device + regimen.

Develops technical benefit statements & core claim spaces for technologies.

An entry level Associate Scientist/Engineer within Technical Products Research will help to design & deliver new products – assessing new technologies with the consumer to deliver breakthrough products. They will plan & execute their own work, with help from manager, supporting the projects, delivering it reliably, punctually, ensuring quality content & sharing learnings. They will build category understanding of ELC products, packages / devices, using their technical knowledge to generate & analyze data, recognize & flag unexpected learnings.

They will become competent in standard operating procedures & methodologies used within their department. Support in consumer model development, consumer performance targets & specifications.

Onboards and develops technical skills in consumer understanding – learns core consumer research & analysis techniques. Role models collaboration & the power of the team. Practices abundance mentality - generous in sharing praise & credit.

Proactive participation in Corporate & Global R&I (including safety and quality) programs that drive organizational capability & individual growth. Tailored to reflect candidate’s interests, skills & goals.

• Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Anthropology Consumer/Sensory Science or other related field of study
• Demonstrates Learning Agility, Strives For Excellence & Follow Through, Embraces and Initiates Change, Builds Collaborative Relationships
• High desire to learn, highly motivated
• Understanding of the scientific method/mentality to problem solving. Displayed use of the scientific method, leveraging multiple sources of information, to improve a product, experience, process in a past internship or in undergraduate research
• Previous experience designing, conducting, and analyzing…